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Re:The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009) by stephengillie on Thursday June 14, 2018 @09:01AM (#17311300)
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein
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Re:The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009) by DonaldFisk on Thursday June 14, 2018 @10:01AM (#17311708)
There's no evidence Einstein ever said that: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/

And some fish can climb trees: https://www.thesprucepets.com/some-fish-can-climb-trees-3969...

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Re:The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009) by andyidsinga on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:49PM (#17313655)
he misattributed - it was actually Mark Twain :) :) :)
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Re:The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009) by stephengillie on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:59PM (#17313778)
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein - Mark Twain

(How Twain predicted Einstein to say this, I'll never know.)

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